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LAUC-SB held 2 feedback sessions. The first session was
part of our membership meeting on January 4. There was a lot of discussion and
comments. We decided to schedule a second meeting on March 7. For the second
meeting, there were breakout groups covering issues and concerns regarding
Reference/Instruction; Collection Development; and Technical Services. In
addition we discussed in each group professional governance, professional
development and trends for the future. The different facilitators for each group
took draft notes.

- There was a general consensus that we should reach out more to the Library
folks outside the Librarian series who:

(a) have an MLS (or equivalent)

(b) are working on one, or

(c) are thinking about working on one.

They can't vote or be officers (without major changes to the bylaws), but they
could participate in programs and projects.

Suggested actions:

Put out a call via the "Library" listserv for persons in the
categories above to self-identify, and add them to the "lauc-sb-plus"
listserv, so that they'll get all the news and invitations. At present,
about the only person who is "plus" on the listserv is David
Gartrell, but there are several other possible.

Supervisors of non-librarian staff would have to be encouraged to allow their
people to participate in these programs. The new AUL for Organizational
Development and Effectiveness could help with this.

- More use could be made of internships, either for UCSB students interested in
pursuing library careers, or for local non-UCSB students who are pursuing the
MLS through distance learning.

Suggested actions:

Contact campus Career Services for assistance with UCSB student internships.

Put out a call on the listservs of library schools doing distance degree
programs.

Professional
Development:

- There are lots of meetings/workshops/classes out there at which the Library
should have some representation, but many fall through the cracks.

Suggested actions:

Create an open calendar of meetings (using the Library Wiki, perhaps?) so that
everyone can see a list of upcoming meetings/workshops/classes events. It
would help members coordinate travel - both in terms of travel sharing and room
sharing, and also in terms of "I'll cover this meeting if you cover that
meeting." It would also help the library administration to identify
programs we should be sending a representative.

More and more meetings (both conferences and committee meetings) are being held
virtually. This trend is likely to continue. We should encourage
more participation this way.

Suggested action:

Investigate where RPD could allow members to use their prof. dev. funds to pay
for organization memberships. Since frequently one need not attend meetings to
be active in a society, this might allow some members to broaden their
professional activities.

- New and prospective librarians need more help to get professionally involved.

Suggested actions

Have RPD promote mentorship in this area, offering opportunities through the
expanded "lauc-sb-plus" list (see above.)

Reference
and Instruction

- We need more help in developing Outcomes for library instruction and
evaluating learning effectiveness.

Suggested actions

Reach out to Educational Psychology faculty and/or the Gevirtz Graduate School
of Education for assistance.

- The Library (along with the rest of the campus) is periodically evaluated by
the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Can we make use
of these evaluations? The next one is coming up in 2013, we believe.

Suggested actions

Review the last WASC library evaluation, especially the Educational
Effectiveness document, and see if there are recommendations we haven't yet and
should implement.

- More should be done to encourage "thinking outside of the box".

Suggested actions

Encourage members (with time and administrative support) to form
cross-departmental ad hoc committees/working groups/task forces to pursue
innovative projects.

- We need to (at least) keep up with the technologies being used by our
patrons.

Suggested actions

The Library should acquire new devices (especially in the area of tablet and
other mobile devices) for librarians to experiment with in delivering library
services.

The new AUL for Information Technology should be encouraged to find ways to
give librarians more control over their own workstations so that we can try new
software without having to make the IT support team jump through hoops to get
it installed.

-The work of subject specialists is very
important and there is a slimmer staff.

-Core collections do not require specialization

-Parameters, and set up profiles for the 9
campuses

-Sharing monographs as a possibility for
collaborations

-A strategic plan for collection development

-How to make electronic browsing more successful
to meet collection needs?

-Enhanced records, more collaborative collection
building (profiling – e book packages allow for more collaboration)

-Should there be a bibliographer as a subject
specialist on each campus? For example at UCSB there is a need for a Germanist.

-Should there be a regional specialist
that serves more than one campus with that

level of expertise. The specialist would be located on one campus. This
specialist

could create e-online guides, visit campuses once a year, and create an
online tool

for conversations with faculty.

-Balancing workloads

-JSC survey for faculty

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Next Gen UC Librarian Feedback – LAUC-SB –
March 7, 2012

TECHNICAL
SERVICES-ISSUES/NEXT STEPS TO IMPLEMENT

·More routine, less challenging work is being
out-sourced, whatis left is the more
complex, challenging work.

·Technology, judgement & skill sets.

Professional Governance/Organization

·We are pushing the librarian work out of the
series and pushing it down.

·Our job responsibilities include so many
different kinds of tasks/disciplines/skill sets now that it is hard to
concentrate on any one task – lots of gear switching.

·Since we have more LAVs and Systems Programmers
doing high level work, it makes sense to bring them into more major
discussionsthat currently only LAUC members
participate in.

Professional Development/Continuing Education

·We can promote workshops and formal training,
however, we need to be able to attend professional training and meetings
ourselves. The library should be paying for librarians to attend these
trainings/workshops and not expect it to come out of our $1,000 professional
development fund.

Trends in library services that go beyond what we already do

·Copyright/Licensing issues – including Risk
management, Access to Administration – indemnification and other parts of the
license. – There is a need to start to put a strategic focus on our approach to
Intellectual Property.

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